THE CHARACTER BETWEEN READING TEXT AND VISUAL TEXT(2000-2017)

Abstract

Critics have addressed the definitions of the character in the literary woke from Aristo he to the present day . the perception of the character as a literary component differs according to different literary approaches but all agree that it is a major component for the literary text . and the author depends on it to transfer part of his ideas to the reader or audience through the employment of different Kinds of characters with their conflicts in the text of the novel. In the cinema the characters go beyond what is in the narrative text , in which characters should be distinguished from others by styles , formal accessories, as well as the necessity of adapting to the lenses of the camera . And in this way , the character transforms simple dictions to a more realistic ones that we can face in our daily life's , which has its physical and psychological features , its own behaviors , its own way of expression that takes it from paper to screening of the character with tools that are basic to the cinematic work . This research studies the existence of characters in narrative and visual texts , the way they are . Pictured by the narrator , and how the filmmakers perceive this text and presently and present it, turning the characters to a group of living ones , moving on big screens as idea transformers for filmmaker , through this they expose to the audience the ideas of the author who created these characters . The paper is divided into two sections which are the basics in the differences between the existence of characters in both narrative and visual texts . The first section speaks about the external and internal components of the characters in the narrative and visual texts and how they are presented by the author or the film maker . As for the second section it deals with the different kinds of famous characters in literary criticism .